A senior police officer in Basirhat said that the police had decided not to apply force at this moment. Instead, it has decided to deal with the situation strategically by mixing of compassion and caution
A team comprising state irrigation minister Partha Bhowmick and fire and emergency services minister Sujit Bose visited some of the trouble-torn areas of Sandeshkhali on Saturday | Kolkata News
The developments took place after Sirajuddin and his men allegedly set ablaze the house of a villager at Kathpole in Sandeshkhali block in North 24-Parganas, after she protested the forceful removal of soil from her farmland apparently to turn it into a 'bheri' or a pond for pisciculture
In a fresh incident of arson at Sandeshkhali, locals mobbed a bheri controlled by absconding Trinamool functionary Sheikh Shahjahan's brother and torched a structure set up to oversee fishing operations there on Thursday afternoon, prompting police to once again clamp fresh prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC in nine places under five gram panchayats - Trimoni Bazar, Kaharpara, Patrapara, Khulna Hat and Jeliakhali - from Thursday night.
As police and local Trinamul MLA Sukumar Mahata looked on, the villagers “freed up” the ground, playing football and planting trees along its boundary wall and sending out a message that Shahjahan’s reign of terror was over